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New York’s Deliverymen Are Mad As Hell

<div class="image"><img src="http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/food/07/08/06_delivery_sm.jpg"/></div>Between dodging trucks and potholes, risking robberies, working endless hours for slave wages in the rain and cold, and having to buy their own bikes and food, the city&#8217;s delivery workers have one of the rawest deals in all of New York City. But thanks to suits filed against <a href="http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/saigon_grill03/">Saigon Grill</a>, Flor de Mayo, and several other restaurants around town, solidarity and an able use of the American legal system might turn things around. The takeaway quote from this week's piece by noted reporter and author Jennifer Gonnerman? &#8220;If we win this case, every restaurant is going to change.&#8221; Of course, there are no guarantees in any labor battle. Read on for the <em>New York</em> take.
<a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/35540/">The Deliverymen&#8217;s Uprising</a> [NYM]
<strong>Related</strong>: <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/03/pols_come_out_to_support_saigo_1.html">Pols Come Out to Support Saigon Grill Workers; Delivery Service Still Suspended</a> [Daily Intel]

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Between dodging trucks and potholes, risking robberies, working endless hours for slave wages in the rain and cold, and having to buy their own bikes and food, the city’s delivery workers have one of the rawest deals in all of New York City. But thanks to suits filed against Saigon Grill, Flor de Mayo, and several other restaurants around town, solidarity and an able use of the American legal system might turn things around. The takeaway quote from this week's piece by noted reporter and author Jennifer Gonnerman? “If we win this case, every restaurant is going to change.” Of course, there are no guarantees in any labor battle. Read on for the New York take.